Nucleic acid distribution pattern as a possible biomarker for metabolic activities of neoplastic cells: A digitally-aided fluorescence microscopy study on normal and neoplastic lymphocytes of acute and chronic canine lymphocytic leukemia

Cancer Cell International

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Isitor, Godwin N ^a   Campbell, Mervyn ^a   Nayak, Shivananda B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

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Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL METABOLISM; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SHAPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOG; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LEUKEMIA CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE;

EID: 67651173042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2867-9-13     Document Type: Article

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